Is dandelion a friend or foe? A thing of beauty or a yard-blanketing beast?
Well, it all depends on how you choose to look at it.
If you consider it an obnoxious weed that dots your garden with horrific spots of yellow, then you are probably among the majority who favor conventional short-green-grass lawns. The shorter the cut and the less wild, the better.
However, when you take into consideration that dandelions are undoubtedly nutritious from root to flowering tip, then dandelions in your unsprayed lawn will always be your friends.
If you’d like to encourage even more dandelions (and a plethora of wildflowers in general) go ahead and delay mowing, or scything, until June.
Your neighbors may think you are a little bit crazy, for rewilding your backyard, but you know better than that.
Rewilding our garden, and our life, is one of the greatest steps we can take to get more nature + vitamin D in our system. We aren’t meant to sit around all day watching the screen, we are supposed to be out doing, creating and making. This brings about a meaningful and intentional life.
Let’s get on with the details, so you can head out to a safe place to pick your own fresh dandelion blossoms. In two weeks’ time, a dandelion infused oil will be yours for the healing.
